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An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in…
An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God's people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion and the advancement of Christ's Kingdom on earth, pursuant to Scripture-promises and prophecies concerning the last time. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Minister of the Gospel at Northampton. ; With a preface by several ministers.
printed for D. Henchman, 1748
Part 2: MOTIVES to a Compliance with what is proposed in the Memorial.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The gods that have not made the Heavens and the Earth, even they shall perish from the Earth, and from under these Heavens. Ver. 15. They are Vanity, and the Work of Errors, in the Time of their Visitation they shall perish. This must be understood as what shall be brought to pass while this Earth and these Heavens remain, i. e. before the End of the World. Agreeable to this is that, Isai. liv.1, 2. Sing, O Barren, and thou that didst not bear;—for more are the Children of the desolate than the Children of the married Wife, saith the Lord: Enlarge the Place of thy Tent, and let them stretch forth the Curtains of thy Habitation; spare not; lengthen thy Cords, strengthen thy Stakes. Ver. 5. For thy Maker is thy Husband; the Lord of Hosts is his Name; and thy Redeemer the holy One of Israel; THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH SHALL HE BE CALLED.
The gods that have not made the Heavens and the Earth, even they shall perish from the Earth, and from under these Heavens. Ver. 15. They are Vanity, and the Work of Errors, in the Time of their Visitation they shall perish. This must be understood as what shall be brought to pass while this Earth and these Heavens remain, i. e. before the End of the World. Agreable to this is that, Isai. liv.1, 2. Sing, O Barren, and thou that didst not bear;—for more are the Children of the desolate than the Children of the married Wife, saith the Lord: Enlarge the Place of thy Tent, and let them stretch forth the Curtains of thy Habitation; spare not; lengthen thy Cords, strengthen thy Stakes. Ver. 5. For thy Maker is thy Husband; the Lord of Hosts is his Name; and thy Redeemer the holy One of Israel; THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH SHALL HE BE CALLED.
The Prophecies of the New-Testament do no less evidently show, that a Time will come when the Gospel shall universally prevail, and the Kingdom of Christ be extended over the whole habitable Earth, in the most proper Sense. Christ says, (John xii.32.) I, if I be